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An Autoethnography of Pole Dancing, Nudity and Censorship on Instagram City Research Online City, University of London Institutional Repository Citation: Are, C. ORCID: 0000-0003-1110-3155 (2021). The Shadowban Cycle: an autoethnography of pole dancing, nudity and censorship on Instagram. Feminist Media Studies, doi: 10.1080/14680777.2021.1928259 This is the published version of the paper. This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link: https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/26268/ Link to published version: https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2021.1928259 Copyright: City Research Online aims to make research outputs of City, University of London available to a wider audience. Copyright and Moral Rights remain with the author(s) and/or copyright holders. URLs from City Research Online may be freely distributed and linked to. 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Submit your article to this journal Article views: 1502 View related articles View Crossmark data Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=rfms20 FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2021.1928259 The Shadowban Cycle: an autoethnography of pole dancing, nudity and censorship on Instagram Carolina Are Department of Sociology, School of Arts and Social Sciences, City, University of London, London, UK ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY This paper contributes to the social media moderation research Received 25 November 2020 space by examining the still under-researched “shadowban”, Revised 8 April 2021 a form of light and secret censorship targeting what Instagram Accepted 5 May 2021 defines as borderline content, particularly affecting posts depicting KEYWORDS women’s bodies, nudity and sexuality. “Shadowban” is a user- Shadowban; Instagram; generated term given to the platform’s “vaguely inappropriate algorithm bias; pole dance; content” policy, which hides users’ posts from its Explore page, digital activism dramatically reducing their visibility. While research has already focused on algorithmic bias and on social media moderation, there are not, at present, studies on how Instagram’s shadowban works. This autoethnographic exploration of the shadowban pro­ vides insights into how it manifests from a user’s perspective, applying a risk society framework to Instagram’s moderation of pole dancing content to show how the platform’s preventive mea­ sures are affecting user rights. Introduction This article provides one of the first contributions to research on Instagram’s “shadow­ ban”, a user-generated term for the Facebook-owned photo streaming app’s “vaguely inappropriate content” policy, which dramatically reduces posts’ visibility by hiding them from its Explore page without warning (John Constine 2019). Instagram’s moderation of nudity has previously been condemned by artists, perfor­ mers, activists and celebrities after bans of pictures of female but not male nipples, which caused global online and offline protests such as #FreeTheNipple (Tarleton Gillespie 2018; Instagram n.d.b). While following the protests Facebook and Instagram stopped removing breastfeeding and mastectomy pictures (Gillespie 2018), nudity on these platforms con­ tinues to be viewed as problematic, and is moderated through a variety of obscure techniques, such as shadowbans (Susanna Paasonen, Kylie Jarrett and Ben Light 2019; Katrin Tiidenberg and Emily van der Nagel 2020). Techniques similar to shadowbanning have been used in Internet forums since the 1970s, but the term itself seems to have appeared in the early 2000s on the Something Awful website, where in 2001 moderators began to diminish the reach of those joining forums to troll others (Samantha Cole 2018). In 2016, shadowbans became a conservative CONTACT Carolina Are [email protected] City, University of London, London, UK https://www.city.ac.uk/about/people/academics/carolina-are © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any med­ ium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. 2 C. ARE conspiracy theory, with the far-right website Breitbart arguing Twitter was shadowban­ ning Republicans to diminish their influence (ibid). Shadowbans are a cross-platform moderation technique implemented by platforms like Twitter—which prevents shadowbanned accounts’ usernames from appearing at search (Liam Stack 2018)—and of TikTok—which allegedly hid black creators from news­ feeds (Trinady Joslin 2020). Given my experience with Instagram censorship and the app’s growing role in self-promotion and user self-expression (Jesselyn Cook 2019, 2020), this paper focuses on Instagram’s shadowban. Throughout 2019 and 2020, Instagram used shadowbans to hide pictures and videos they deemed inappropriate without deleting them, preventing freelancers, artists, sex workers, activists and, largely, women from reaching new audiences and potentially growing their pages (Carolina Are 2019a; Cook 2019, 2020; Sharine Taylor 2019; Mark Zuckerberg 2018). Hiding or removing social media content is, for Gillespie, “akin to censorship”: it limits users’ speech and prevents them from participating on platforms, causing a chilling effect when posting (Gillespie 2018, 177). Informed by an autoethnography of my experience on Instagram and my interviews with their press team, this paper examines Instagram’s censorship of nudity through a world risk society framework. World risk society theory (Ulrich Beck 1992, 2006; Anthony Giddens 1998) is based on the idea that institutions and businesses ineffectively attempt to reduce risks for their citizens or customers by restricting civil liberties. This way, corporations attempt to avoid undesirable events by arbitrarily identifying risks to pre­ vent, increasing the marginalisation of society’s ‘others’ (ibid). This paper will show that, on Instagram, these preventive governance measures result in unfair moderation. Social media moderation research has explored the practice of ‘flagging’ content (Kate Crawford and Tarleton Gillespie 2016) algorithmic bias in moderation (Reuben Binns 2019; Gillespie 2018; Kaye 2019; Paasonen et al. 2019; etc); censorship of sex or sexual content (Tiidenberg and van der Nagel 2020); and the ‘assembling’ of social media moderation and content recommendation processes to perpetuate sexism (Ysabel Gerrard and Helen Thornham 2020). However, research has yet to examine examples of Instagram’s shadowban. While nudity and sexualisation of women are common in advertising and the media (J V. Sparks and Annie Lang 2015), social media offered users the opportunity to portray their sexuality on their own terms, sparking movements and trends that normalised different bodies and sexual practices (Sarah Banet-Weiser 2018; Rachel Cohen et al. 2019). This deviation from mainstream notions of which bodies and activities are deemed acceptable to depict in a public forum nonetheless resulted in platforms limiting nudity and sexual expression to appeal to advertisers (Tarleton Gillespie 2010; Paasonen et al. 2019; Tiidenberg and van der Nagel 2020). Facebook/Instagram’s governance of bodies following this shift has been found to rely on old-fashioned and non-inclusive depictions of bodies: leaked reports showed the company based their Community Standards on advertising guidelines by Victoria’s Secret (Salty 2019) or tried to normate the acceptability of different modes of breast cupping or grabbing (David Gilbert 2020), using standards more akin to sexist advertising (Sparks and Lang 2015) than to the progressive sexual practices showcased by the plat­ forms’ own users. Shadowbans are a key technique through which these standards are implemented. FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES 3 Instagram reportedly uses light censorship through the shadowban, meaning that if a post is sexually suggestive, but doesn’t depict a sex act, it may not appear in Explore or hashtag pages, seriously impacting creators’ ability to gain new audiences (Are 2019b, 2019c; Constine 2019). Shadowbannable content is what Zuckerberg (2018) defined as “borderline” when he introduced the policies he rolled out across Facebook brands. Borderline content toes the line of acceptability Facebook/Instagram set and results, in their experience, in higher engagement even if people do
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